[luau] Partitions

[Vince Hoang]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:00:49PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> I personally think that one swap and one large / partition
> is good for almost every desktop and server. There are some
> special cases like wanting to separate a cache partition
> mounting with noatime and other performance increasing options
> for squid server, but otherwise separating / into multiple
> partitions just isn't needed for most people.

I use noatime on all write partitions unless there is a mail
client that needs to read atime for biff-like (mail arrival
detection) features.

Another reason for multiple partitions these days is it can help
reduce the time it takes to fsck the filesystems after a really
bad system crash.

-Vince